Chile Communications

Country Name: Republic of Chile

Capital City: Santiago

Population: 16,134,219 (2006)

Population Growth: 0.94% (2006)

Currency: Chilean peso (CLP)

Languages: Spanish

Area: 756,950 sq km

Inflation Rate: 2.6% (2006)

Unemployment Rate: 8.3% (2006)

Domain extension: .cl

COMMUNICATIONS OF CHILE

Telephones - main lines in use:

3,435,900 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

10.57 million (2005)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 180 (eight inactive), FM 64, shortwave 17 (one inactive) (1998)

Television broadcast stations:

63 (plus 121 repeaters) (1997)

Internet country code:

.cl

Internet hosts:

506,055 (2006)

Internet users:

6.7 million (2005)

International dialing code:

+13